The Captain America movie, Thor movie, the Green Lantern movie, and Avengers movie!

Time for a really quick blog. By now, most of you diehard comic book superhero fans and live action movie buffs know there are some more upcoming DC Comics and Marvel movies.

I am so looking forward to the Chris Evans Capt America, Chris Hemsworth Thor, the Ryan Reynolds Green Lantern movie, and somewhere down the line, the Avengers movie. They should rock, and the night they debut in theatres, I’m there. If they’re even 1/2 as great as the Robert Downey Jr Iron Man movie and the Christian Bale Batman the Dark Knight movies, they’ll be incredible. Looking forward to Spider-man 4 also, but I mostly want to see a Wonder Woman movie! And don’t let the movie studios or anyone connected to them design Diana Prince’s amazon costume. Stick to the classic and best one. Don’t redesign the wheel, comic editorial teams and movie designers. Don’t change what the fans love. It could make the difference between a mega-hit and being relegated to “straight to video” hell.

Since the Mighty Avengers have been around since 1963, I’m going to commemorate the Avengers by showing our loyal Supervator Super-Blog readers some very cool VINTAGE Captain America, Mighty Thor, and Avengers posters! Just click on the images below to see a larger view of the posters, and to check current availability. Some have artwork by Jack Kirby, Jim Steranko, Jim Lee, Todd McFarlane, Ron Frenz, Alex Ross, Mike Zeck, Golden Age artist Alex Schomburg, and Silver Age legend John Romita Sr.

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Supervator.com’s IRON MAN blog!

Hey there, invincible ones! It’s been a while since we’ve done a Supervator.com Super-Blog, and this one is about one of my favorite Marvel Universe heroes…. the Invincible Iron Man! And I am psyched for the Iron Man 2 movie that’s coming out next month starring Robert Downey Jr,  Gwyneth Paltrow, with Mickey Rourke playing the super-villain Whiplash and Scarlett Johansson playing the sexy Black Widow. And the movie soundtrack by AC/DC? What’s not to love?!? If this Iron Man II movie is anything like the first film, it’s gonna be a mind-blower. And War Machine is going to be in it too! The only thing I don’t like about the movie previews so far is Whiplash’s costume. It doesn’t compare AT ALL to the real Whiplash suit that was first seen in Tales of Suspense 97 back in the 1960′s. I even had a t-shirt made of the TOS # 97 comic book cover, and this was way before the internet was ever thought of and custom tee-shirt’s were easy to make.

Iron Man has always been one of my top 3 heroes, and so much of my childhood revolves around roleplaying that I was Iron Man, to playing with my Iron Man Mego action figure, to my plastic Marx Iron Man figure (I had all 4 different colors), to using an old car’s emergency brake to pretend I was Whiplash, to even trying to make a tin costume out of my Mom’s old floor wax containers. I used a can opener to make openings in the top and bottom of the containers so I could squeeze my 5 year old body in the wax can. And oh my GOD, I got cut to ribbons trying to get out of the suit! But that didn’t faze me one bit, since I still love anything relating to ol’ Shellhead. I especially love the late 60′s and early 1970′s Iron Man comics, especially when drawn by artists Gene Colan and Gil Kane.

Speaking of Invincible Ironman items, this blog shows several of the original color guide art pages that we currently have in stock. To see larger pictures or to check availability, just click on the photos. We have MANY more Iron Man related color guide artwork pages in the Supervator eBay Store.

Well, I’m out of time. Thanks very much for reading this installment of the Supervator.com Super-Blog, and I hope you love the upcoming Iron Man movie as much as I will!

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Isn’t it time for a WONDER WOMAN MOVIE?

Wonder Woman, I don't know what you're charging me with, but I DID IT!!

It’s time for a new Supervator.com blog, this time on one of my favorite subjects: Comic superhero movies. Well, now there’ve been recent silver screen versions of the X-Men, Wolverine, Spider-man, Batman the Dark Knight, Superman, the Hulk, Iron Man, the Fantastic Four, Ghost Rider, Daredevil, Elektra, the Watchmen, and a few others.

Well, what about WONDER WOMAN? Where’s HER movie, Warner Brothers? I mean, she’s only been around since, what, 1941? With all this procrastination, thank God she’s an amazon goddess and doesn’t age. With the roll that comic movies are on nowadays, this is the perfect time for a major motion picture release of the JLA’s hot & sexy main female superhero.

Now, which actress would I like to see play Wonder Woman? How about actresses like Angelina Jolie (she’s already played Lara Croft/Tombraider), Jessica Alba (who’s already played the Invisible Girl in the Fantastic Four films), Megan Fox, Katherine Heigl, Anne Hathaway, Catherine Zeta-Jones, or even Natalie Portman. I can easily imagine a powerful soundtrack song by a group like Nickelback or a lady singer like Beyonce Knowles. And even if you put an unknown actress in the role, if Warner Brothers cast directors choose well (you know what I mean), you could put BILLIONS of girl-crazy males in movie theatre seats to see this one, and probably even a bunch of women too! Who knows? It’s 2009, and I got no problem with girls loving girls!

Ok, I’m back. Had to go smoke a cigarette. Anway, while we’re on the subject of Wonder Woman, I’ll bet no one remembers this: CBS (or ABC, I think) had a 1974 original Wonder Woman tv pilot movie (yes, our WW), starring a blonde Kathy Lee Crosby (not to be confused with singer and Regis Philbin ex talk show host Kathie Lee Gifford). But I’ve always preferred Lynda Carter as the amazon goddess Diana Prince in 1975, and for me, she was the ultimate comics to television babe. Oh all right, so was Julie Newmar as Catwoman in the 1966 Adam West Batman series. AND Deidre Hall and Judy Strangis as “Electra Woman and Dyna Girl” from the Elektra Woman Saturday morning kid’s live action cartoon. AND Joanna Cameron as ISIS. Ok, there. I’m done. Til I think of some others in about 5 minutes.

Now, what good is a blog about a gorgeous brunette lady superhero without some more pics of her? So just for kicks, here’s a rare 1990′s Wonder Woman comic shop dealer promotional poster shown below that is currently available, featuring art by artist John Byrne. Just click on the promo poster picture for more info. More Wonder Woman merchandise is available at Supervator.com as well as in our eBay listings under the name “Supervator”.

Getting back to the subject at hand, DC Comics and the Warner Brothers movie franchise obviously could rake in the money hand over gloved fist if a Wonder Woman movie were made, written well, cast well, and promoted to the hilt. And we know from the past, the people at Warner’s know how to promote things, and promote them well. Heath Ledger as the Joker is one example, but it didn’t hurt to have Heath’s acting genius in the mix. Right now, Marvel Comics movies are “winning” the battle among comic superhero films, but Wonder Woman just might turn the tide for DC and have better mass appeal to both sexes than a male oriented guy like the Hulk that walks around yelling “Me smash”. Think of the merchandising for Wonder Woman products, the soundtrack sales, the toys, the Halloween costumes (well, maybe not), the action figures, t-shirt sales, the comic books, the posters, and on and on.

Well, I’ve got to go process a new order. Business calls again, but that’s what having a website is for, right? I’ll do one more quick minute of blogging to wrap this subject up. So in summary, what do YOU think, loyal blog readers? Want to see a Wonder Woman action film as badly as I do? And who would you put in the skin-tight, nearly nude red, blue, and yellow costume? Oh yeah, that brings up another quick point. Whenever they do get around to making a Wonder Woman film, unless you’re gonna make her totally naked, DON’T SCREW WITH HER COSTUME, all right?

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Who better than da X-MEN?

Hello Marvel Comics super heroes, and welcome to the latest blog on the subject of vintage comic posters and original comic book art! What you see here is an often tough to find gem: It’s an original 1994 UNCANNY X-MEN 34 by 22 inch retail poster, showing the EXACT SAME IMAGE used for the Fleer Ultra trading card set team “portrait”. And, from what I understand, it was very difficult to acquire all the Fleer trading cards needed to make up this image. This ’94 poster features painted artwork by brothers Tim and Greg Hildebrandt, and it’s Marvel Press poster number 174. SHOWN ARE mutant heroes like Wolverine, Sabertooth, Bishop, Professor X, the Beast, Rogue, GAMBIT, Archangel (the Angel), Jean Grey (Marvel Girl), Storm, Psylocke, Iceman, and Cyclops. The painted art is much more incredible in person on this astonishing X-Men poster, and it’s currenly available (as of this writing) in our Supervator eBay Store. You can check it out just by clicking on the picture’s link!

Seeing this poster in our warehouse today reminded me of something. Now with the success of the “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” movie with Hugh Jackman, it’d be great to at long last see all the major X-Men franchise characters appear in one movie, like Wolvie, Jean Grey, Deadpool, Gambit, Rogue, Sabretooth, Bishop, you know what I mean. The big guns. Speaking of that, Cable would also be cool to see larger than life on the silver screen too.

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The distinct lack of DEADPOOL posters (so far)

With lethal mercenary Deadpool (Wade Wilson) being such a hit with longtime Marvel Comics fans and now with movie audiences (from the Hugh Jackman film “X-Men Origins: Wolverine), I have come to a distressing conclusion: There is a definite, distinct LACK of posters featuring Deadpool, the “Merc with a mouth”.

Now that it appears that actor Ryan Reynolds may be playing Deadpool in a Marvel spin-off movie, I’ve come to realize how very few posters (full size posters and comic shop dealer promo posters) of Deadpool have been produced since Deadpool’s first appearance.  As most of his die-hard fans know, Deadpool was created by artist Rob Liefeld back in 1991 in the New Mutants issue 98 comic book, to square off against Cable and his mutant teammates. And of course, there will forever be comparisons drawn between Rob Leifeld’s Deadpool character and DC Comics anti-hero Deathstroke the Terminator, who was a longtime adversary/ally of Nightwing and gang in the Teen Titans and New Titans comics.

Back to the distinct lack of Deadpool posters. Yes, there are now the Wolverine movie promo posters I’m sure, and there’s the recent 2008 or 2009 promotional poster of Deadpool holding a bullet ridden teddy bear at a circus or carnival. There’s been a full size Marvel Press poster by artist Joe Madureira back in 1993 (see pics). There was a 1998 promo poster of Deadpool in a team-up with Captain America, and a ’93 Wizard Magazine promo poster showing Deadpool with other Uncanny X-Men super-villains like Sabertooth, Apocalypse, and Omega Red. But to my knowledge, that’s about it. Hope that changes, because Dead Pool is a helluva great character in the Marvel Universe, with a (possibly) great movie future a head of him and tons of potential in his home genre of comic books.

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Who watched the Watchmen?

This is a quick, brief, to-the-point, short on time blog about the recently released “Watchmen” movie. I’d read a lot of previews about it, read a lot of reviews about it, but held back my own judgment about it til I saw it first-hand. Thought it was good. Beyond good actually, knowing how very hard it is to translate the comic medium to the silver screen medium.

So no doubt someone held fast against the temptation and pressure of having this film “Hollywoodized”, which usually means the ruination of an already great storyline, hence it wouldn’t have been considered for movie treatment in the first place. I thought the mid 1990′s Batman movies were horrid, because Hollywood took great comic stories that could have been (yes, I said could) faithfully converted to movies. Perhaps even more powerfully than the original paper-bound story. Yes, I thought the Batman films were ruined, but I also felt that way about the Spider-man movies to a lesser extent.  Much like that Batman film that showed “Bane” as a dolt, rather than the master villain that broke Batman’s back, I also thought the first Spiderman film ruined a potentially great Green Goblin story. And I don’t mean just by blowing it big time with the “Power Ranger” costume.

Back to the Watchmen. I didn’t feel that way about the Watchmen at all, story-wise, characterization wise, or the outfits. They stuck to the original formula that made it such a hit in 1985 in the first place. Rorschach (portrayed by Jackie Earle Haley) was awesome, right down to the scratchy whisper of a voice and the no compromise attitude. And I felt myself guiltily rooting for the Comedian (Edward Blake), Silk Spectre was even hotter onscreen than she was in the pre-release promo posters. Nite Owl was damn close to his original characterization, with a bit less wimpiness and much less flab to him. Ozymandias and Dr Manhattan’s characterizations… dead on. And holy $hit, did the fight scenes kick ass, or what? My God, there was more action in the Silk Specter/Night Owl vs the inmates prison scene than in all the Batman franchise movies put together, save the last two with Christian Bale. There was a hell of a lot of gore in Watchmen than I’d anticipated. I figured they’d make the film at least partly watered down so DC Direct could sell more action figures. It wasn’t watered down or compromised at all, which is a super heroic feat in any film, much less one that originated in the comic book genre. I applaud all involved in the film for standing their ground.

Well, I’d best end this allegedly “short” blog here, because I obviously loved the film. Like other comic fans, I get damn tired of the constant idiocy of the “pow” “bam” “zap” legacy of Adam West’s Batman type of lazy reviews that get thrown together for comic type movies, but I didn’t see a whole lot of that for the Watchman. I’d give this movie a solid 9. Although it’s unlikely, it wouldn’t kill me to see a Watchmen II movie come about. I’d be first in line. Now of course, a certain character would have to be brought back from the dead, but come on, who better to figure out a way to bring someone back from the dead than the comic book community?

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Why collect comic book promo posters?

To your left is the scarce “The Watchmen” promo poster from 1986 featuring the late, great anti-hero called “the Comedian” (Edward Blake). Click on the poster’s image to check availability from Supervator.com if you like. As of this blog’s writing, fans are anxiously awaiting the silver screen debut of the Watchmen movie based on DC Comics 1980′s mini series by writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons, therefore Watchmen merchandise is hot. Most are mass produced items however, and may not escalate in value. Promo posters are different, and that brings us back to the subject of this blog. Hundreds or perhaps thousands of Marvel and DC comic fans collect comic shop dealer promotional posters. For those that do, no explanation is necessary. For those that don’t, or those that have thought about it, here’s a few great reasons why you might consider collecting superhero promo posters:

First, there weren’t many of them made at all. As you may know, this type of poster was given only to retail shops, for their display in their comic stores. Most times, a dealer only received one copy, and they were never for sale to the public. And remember, there aren’t many comic book shops left in existence for comic companies to distribute promotional posters to.

Of the few that were made, most get displayed, otherwise damaged, or thrown out. That further reduces the already small quantity of them. For those that like hard to find posters, this is quite a rewarding challenge when you find that super scarce Jim Lee or Alex Ross promo poster you’ve been after for years.

Although they are nearly always folded during their original distribution to retail outlets, promo posters oftentimes feature super-hero images that you cannot find on any other poster.

And here’s something else to think about. With every day that goes by, with the thousands of collectible Marvel, DC Comics, and other publishers posters being exchanged through the mail daily via auctions, fixed price online venues, and online web stores, there no doubt will be a certain number of those posters risking life and limb in the mail that will be damaged on a regular basis, which will make the supply of some posters dwindle by the day. That increases rarity even further.

There are just a few of my thoughts regarding the collection of rare and vintage comic store promo posters. I could go on forever on this subject, but I may go into further detail sometime down the road.

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